Can Mindfulness foster well-being and performance at work? A compendium of intervention studies

Resumen

The main goal of this dissertation is to expand the research on Mindfulness and MBIs at work and its effects on workers' levels of psychological wellbeing and performance by testing for these effects on several different work-specific MBI protocols ranging from standardized content and rationale to full-on multi-component customizations. Based on this main goal, three key research questions are asked and grouped into three distinct research challenges that will serve as a general outline of the specific objectives of this project. Research Challenge 1: Can MBIs foster worker’s psychological wellbeing? Research Challenge 2: Can MBIs help workers increase their performance? Research Challenge 3: Are work-specific MBIs effective at promoting worker’s wellbeing and performance? We address the different research challenges through the different chapters. More specifically, we present an initial brief review and conceptualization of MBIs at work focusing on its positive effects (chapter 2), and four empirical studies (chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6) focusing on testing MBI interventions from different perspectives. In summary, the results presented in this thesis project contribute to the theoretical framework of mindfulness by providing empirical evidence supporting the positive effect of MBIs on workers' levels of psychological wellbeing and performance.